Modifies a noun

• agent: The be-suited avaricious agent was assured that there was.

• man: A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace.

• one: Hemlock has taken over from the previous be-suited avaricious one, whose incompetence and lack of business acumen has become a byword.

• eye: The growing tennis section was flexing its muscle and casting avaricious eyes on the cricket pitch as a site for more courts.

• mistress: As he progressed in years, the King began to lean heavily on his grasping and avaricious mistress, Alice Perrers.

• person: Avarice arises from precisely this confusion: the avaricious person forgets that money is a means and treats it as an end.